John Ruskin Books


Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture

John Ruskin

Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture by John Ruskin. Preface by the author:I must pray the readers of the following Lectures to remember that the duty at present laid on ..

The Harbours of England

John Ruskin

"Turner's Harbors of England," as it is generally called, is a book which, for various reasons, has never received from readers of Mr. Ruskin's writings the attention it deserves. True, it has always ..

Proserpina, Volume 1

John Ruskin

Proserpina, Volume 1, Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew.Introduction by author:Yesterday evening I was looking ..

The Crown of Wild Olive

John Ruskin

John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varie..

The Ethics of the Dust

John Ruskin

The Ethics of the Dust is a collection of  lectures, were really given, in substance, at a girls' school (far in the country); which, in the course of various experiments on the possibility of in..